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Re: Peter Spiro: Building great databases. Making great teams. Leadership. WinFS. The power of having fun.

crapped — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:25:25 GMT

ql, looking for a sequel :)

Re: Peter Spiro: Building great databases. Making great teams. Leadership. WinFS. The power of having fun.

lexx_debug — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:11:19 GMT

wow! something could grow in that beard.

Re: Peter Spiro: Building great databases. Making great teams. Leadership. WinFS. The power of having fun.

Flatliner — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:22:59 GMT

Charles wrote:

I'll try, littleguru. I'd like to dig more into where WinFS is (that is, what's become of its constituent innovations, of which there are many) and what makes SQL great, technically.

C

I'd be really interested to hear exactly what was so impossible about it? Does anyone know of the real reason it was canned? Was it a technical challeng, perhaps to do with performance and resources, or was it more market positioning? (i.e. if you shipped WinFS inside the OS, does that cut into SQL Server's market share?).

Re: Peter Spiro: Building great databases. Making great teams. Leadership. WinFS. The power of having fun.

Maxim Serenko — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:21:43 GMT

He is monstar, i like him. I want work with him.

Re: Peter Spiro: Building great databases. Making great teams. Leadership. WinFS. The power of having fun.

sokhaty — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:42:37 GMT

Damn, if Peter worked on record versioning/snapshot isolation in RDB at DEC, why SQL Server got this feature only in 2005 release?

I guess it would explain why WinFS failed. Even in the planned 2008 release SQL Server still lacks a bunch of key features that are absolutely required for WinFS to function.

Well, may be in the next 10 years or so, it would get there.

Otherwise very interesting to watch.

Re: Peter Spiro: Building great databases. Making great teams. Leadership. WinFS. The power of having fun.

Chadk — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:55:27 GMT

This is one of the Behind the code episodes i liked. The flow in this was really good.

Very interesting person! Would love to see him on C9.

Re: Peter Spiro: Building great databases. Making great teams. Leadership. WinFS. The power of having fun.

pierreleclercq — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:21:11 GMT

Fun and creativity! Sounds like a whole program! He definitely has
an interesting approach to management. Actually, more generally,
MS has a unique approach about creativity for software developers.

Re: Peter Spiro: Building great databases. Making great teams. Leadership. WinFS. The power of having fun.

shenyizhe — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:42:31 GMT

My manager actually dressed like him for work everyday in office!

Back to the topic, very good interview; one of the few videos that I actually sat through for an hour listening. He sure is one guy with a good work-life balance ratio :P

Re: Peter Spiro: Building great databases. Making great teams. Leadership. WinFS. The power of having fun.

Charles — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 05:30:05 GMT

I'll try, littleguru. I'd like to dig more into where WinFS is (that is, what's become of its constituent innovations, of which there are many) and what makes SQL great, technically.

Re: Peter Spiro: Building great databases. Making great teams. Leadership. WinFS. The power of having fun.

Christian Liensberger — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:07:34 GMT

AWESOME video. wow! It gave me very much. Great, great guy! I hope we can get more of Peter here on Channel 9... don't know if Charles can get him for an interview.

Re: Peter Spiro: Building great databases. Making great teams. Leadership. WinFS. The power of having fun.

Xaero_Vincent — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:32:57 GMT

Is this guy related to Richard Stallman in anyway? :O

Good video nevertheless.

Re: Peter Spiro: Building great databases. Making great teams. Leadership. WinFS. The power of having fun.

Erwyn — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:51:38 GMT

Nice interview. Unfortunately a lot of the WinFS stuff seems to have been edited out at about 42m45s into the video. There is a sudden jump to Peter's vacation plans.

Re: Peter Spiro: Building great databases. Making great teams. Leadership. WinFS. The power of having fun.

raymond — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:03:02 GMT

Really enjoyed this video.

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Re: Peter Spiro: Building great databases. Making great teams. Leadership. WinFS. The power of having fun.

mwirth — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:39:22 GMT

Thanks for this video! He 's a really outstanding person with an interesting background. Throughout this interview i thought that there are parallels in his way of thinking to the way Bill Hill thinks about the interaction of software and humans. So I was pleasantly surprised that Bill Hill asked the last question in this interview.

Somehow I really enjoy listening to people with so different backgrounds. I think it's because this is so rare in the more traditional companies where you need a specific degree for a specific job.

This immediately reminded me that we do need another Bill Hill interview. The hike around the campus is still my favourite video on channel 9.

Cheers,
Martin

Re: Peter Spiro: Building great databases. Making great teams. Leadership. WinFS. The power of having fun.

samdruk — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:59:17 GMT

Yes, it's real. He shaved it once about 15 years ago, or so I've heard.

Re: Peter Spiro: Building great databases. Making great teams. Leadership. WinFS. The power of having fun.

Tom Kirby-Green — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:47:08 GMT

I was lucky enough to lurk at the back of the room many years ago at Redmond during a Longhorn Technical Design Review. WinFS was still on the table then and Peter was there talking about schemas for various entities like contacts (you know: people, numbers, addresses etc). He struck me then as a serious brain and also deeply enthused by his work. Can't help but envy his team :-)

Re: Peter Spiro: Building great databases. Making great teams. Leadership. WinFS. The power of having fun.

Christian Liensberger — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:29:28 GMT

Ray6 wrote:
Is that a real beard?

Image the years it took him to grow that one. I'm so sure this one is real.

Re: Peter Spiro: Building great databases. Making great teams. Leadership. WinFS. The power of having fun.

shoshan — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:30:20 GMT

why won't you compress the videos ?

this is an hour video and it's a gig!

Re: Peter Spiro: Building great databases. Making great teams. Leadership. WinFS. The power of having fun.

Ray6 — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:07:12 GMT

Is that a real beard?